An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the EnvironmentPublished more than three decades after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, this book offers a critique of current thinking on cance...9999903105688Sandra Steingraber
Virago Press Ltd
miércoles, 10 de abril de 2024
How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth"We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of lif...9999903102632Juan Enriquez Steve Gulla...
Editors Varis
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
What My Conversations with Chimpanzees Have Taught Me about Intelligence, Compassion and Being HumanRoger Fouts, a leading animal psychologist and pioneer in the field of animal language research, achieved almost celebrity status in the late 1960s when he successfully taught his ...9999903098737Roger Fouts Stephen Mills
Penguin Books Ltd
martes, 26 de marzo de 2024
How Culture Made the Human MindHow culture transformed human evolution Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language to science and technology. How did the human mi...9999903097501Kevin N. Laland
Princeton University Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and DeathErasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death reveals that death is not a moment in time. Death, rather, is a process ??a process that can be i...9999903077367Sam Parnia
HarperCollins
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Using Science to See Our Species as We Really areHuman beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This v...9999903077329David P. Barash
Oxford University Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
The Science Behind RevulsionThere is a powerful subconscious reaction that influences a disturbingly wide range of our daily behaviour - our eating habits, our relationships, our values. The very same reactio...9999903068440Valerie Curtis
Oxford University Press
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
How DNA Makes Us who We areOne of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what makes us who we are. The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that ...9999903064008Robert Plomin
Penguin
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
Inside the Science of Our Continuing EvolutionAre humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this intriguing book, evolutionary b...9999903063360Scott Solomon
Yale University Press
miércoles, 10 de enero de 2024
An Introduction to Visual PerceptionWhy do things look blurry underwater? Why do people drive too fast in fog? How do you high-pass filter a cup of tea? What have mixer taps to do with colour vision? Basic Vision: An...9999903063193Robert Snowden Robert J. ...
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 10 de enero de 2024
"The authors have taken pains to make the subject accessible and the result is a terrific book for newcomers to evidence-based practice, as well as old hands. One of the more groun...9999903049920Helen Aveyard Pam Sharp
Open University Press
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
A Learning Programme for ProfessionalsChildhood TB empowers healthcare workers to learn about the primary care of children with tuberculosis. Our aim is to improve the care of children with TB in all communities, espec...9999903049883The Desmond Tutu Tubercul...
Editors Varis
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
Lecture Notes on Tropical Medicine is a core text with an emphasis on the clinical aspects of problem-solving in the tropics. This new, revised edition includes a more global and s...9999903049876G. V. Gill Nick Beeching
Blackwell Science
miércoles, 13 de diciembre de 2023
How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for DarwinTHE DRAGON SEEKERS is a book about the early fossilists, that extraordinary group of individuals who first identified the dinosaurs and whose discoveries helped pave the way for Da...9999903033813Christopher McGowan
Little, Brown and Company
sábado, 14 de octubre de 2023
The Anatomy ; [catalogue on the Exhibition]Created by anatomist Gunther von Hagens and curator Angelina Whalley, Animal Inside Out is a completely new type of animal world that gets under your skin. Never before have lay pe...9999903005216Angelina Whalley Gunther ...
Editors Varis
miércoles, 19 de julio de 2023
The Crisis of Global Warming'Each one of us is a cause of global warming, but each of us can become part of the solution- in the decisions we make on what we buy, the amount of electricity we use, and how we ...9999902995617Al Gore
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
sábado, 17 de junio de 2023
This volume is a reference for scientists, technologists, researchers, students and the general reader. It contains 45,000 entries covering 100 fields of activity embracing every s...9999902983973Walker, Peter M.B. (Edito...
Wordsworth Editions, Ltd
miércoles, 17 de mayo de 2023
How to Love Life - and Save It'Rousing, polemical and heartfelt' - Gardens Illustrated 'An invitation to take action' - The Observer One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And it...9999902974148Chris Packham Megan McCub...
Editors Varis
miércoles, 19 de abril de 2023
The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next OneOver the last 30 years, we learned every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks. We heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never bef...9999902974070Debora Mackenzie
Abacus
miércoles, 19 de abril de 2023
How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our FuturesJust 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice ...9999902874325Carey, Nessa
Icon Books
martes, 19 de julio de 2022
The Greatest Story Never Told : the Human Story of the Search for the Cure for Tuberculosis and the New Global ThreatTuberculosis is the greatest killer of all time. In this century and the previous one, it was responsible for the deaths of a thousand million human beings. Half way through the 20...9999902843710Frank Ryan
Editors Varis
martes, 3 de mayo de 2022
1918's Forgotten Tragedy and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus that Caused itThis text presents the story of the 1918 flu pandemic and discusses current scientific efforts to isolate the particular strain that was so virulent, in order to prevent the same t...9999902842744Pete Davis
London : Michael Joseph, 1999.
viernes, 29 de abril de 2022
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